Orbs festival For Sonic Boundaries

The meeting of psychedelic art and music is the foundation. The influences of the artists, their ideal to push the boundaries and together create the headroom to share inspiration.

The soil bordered by the movements and expressions. Many artists find an overtone by an unrelated art form. Variations of literature return in the musical realization. Which visual artists are influenced by in their works. 

“Topics such as karma and reincarnation, as described in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore and the Tibetan book of the dead, come back frequently and have a major impact on the music of Macondo. The echo of these books is musically translated into continuous, meditative pulse and melodic phrases” - Macondo

In this approach Macondo creates its own timbre which is fed by the literary works. The creative process is a journey of discovery for each artist. Nature, different art movements and the search for a distinctive sound is the incentive to experiment constantly. “I work digitally a lot but to keep it interesting for myself and for the image I like to involve other disciplines. For example photography, I like to make pictures that I incorporate into my work. Which I use as a texture so that the work does not feel to digital and gets more depth. Since I like to be outside from which I get a lot of inspiration” - Robin of Studio Fungi   

The similarities between disciplines are often divided. Animation and visual arts have both the character of endless possibilities. The creative process differs in the selected technologies.

“In the last years more diversity is developing, also realistic, organic, geometric and various styles are evolving. On one hand I like to focus and specialize, on the other hand I like to experiment and to explore” - Bbi Lake.

Dive into the depths of psychedelics. Orbs is the festival for psychedelic and innovative artists. On October 15 artists will exhibit their work in the form of exhibitions , film presentations , lectures and concerts. The program consists of: Tomaga (UK) Forming percussive energy through analog synthesizers to create a clash of vibrant rhythms and sounds, Jo Goes Hunting Avant-garde pop music consisting of deep analog bass synths, spacey guitars, rhythmic variations and spatial vocal harmonies, Odile Dreamy oriental atmospheres, psychotic nightmares and hallucinogenic plant extracts, Sietske Isings It needs to have the fleeting, foggy , inaccessible vibe from a far distant memory, an event that once was but no longer is, HØUND, Studio Fungi, Cusack, The Anaesthetics, Bbi Lake, The Mighty Breaks, Mantra, Mango Zabba, Fetter, Alcuna Wilds, Naomian From The Planet Zork, Macondo, Joost Verhagen & Templehum will compliment your viewing pleasure with tantalizing sounds to immerse you further down the spiral of psychedelic art and music.

During the Orbs Festival Klik! Amsterdam Animation Festival will show a selection of short animated films. The look of the film makers of the world and how they translate this into this boundless art form is the opening of the Orbs festival where the various psychedelic art forms merge.

“I believe that every human being knows what he or she prefers, the more reason to make art more accessible so each everyone can make a more beautiful world of his own” - Naomi Jansen

Saturday 15 October
Open: 16:00
Presale: €13 // Door: €15
Location: Duycker, Raadhuisplein 5, 2132 TZ Hoofddorp

More information: duycker.nl/agenda/orbs-festival/